Plant slender to moderately robust, erect or pendulous, to 1 m long. Stem internodes terete or decussately flattened or compressed, quadrangular or double-edged, then usually with a raised angular rib on each face, usually distinctly longitudinally ribbed, 15-60 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide below, widened to 1-2 mm above. Leaves rudimentary, spreading, 0.2-0.5 mm long. Inflorescences 1 or sometimes 2 in the axils, rarely with subsidiary cymules developing lateral to the first one, a sessile cymule of 3 flowers, subtended by a cupule 0.5-1 mm long, with the middle flower female and the lateral flowers male. Fruit ellipsoid to almost globose, sessile, smooth, yellow to red, often striate.
Home